NTGTG IT&ED Spring 2023 Meeting

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The 2023 Spring meeting of the NTGTG IT&ED group was held on 12-16 February in Rome, Italy. The location was the Circolo Ufficiali Pio IX. The representatives, delegates, and guests from twenty countries participated, including a four-person delegation from Ukraine. NATO DEEP eAcademy took part as the guest, to update the participants on current and planned education and training activities. The agenda has mainly featured in-person sessions, but also online participation was possible. Microsoft Teams was the platform that was used for this purpose. Apart from national briefings – collaborative breakout sessions, open group discussions, and SME presentations were held. The visit to NATO M7S COE was also organized. The following topics were raised, as the mandated tasks: 1.  STANAG Update (Develop a Standardization Recommendation (STANREC) to Augment STANAG 2591, 2. Learning Analytics as a New STANAG Subtask, 3. The future of the NTGTG IT&ED Group, 4. Sharing e-Courses and Online Course Catalog, 5.  ADL Handbook, 6. NATO ADL Capability Maturing Model. 7. Future Technical Specifications, 8. NATO ADL Glossary of IT&ED Terms. In the “Blue Skies” discussions, two topics were raised: 1. Quantifying Environmental Impacts at the Course Level, 2. Components of the Learning Ecosystem: MetaverseXR/VR/AI (ChatGPT). The Ukrainian delegation delivered the presentations on three topics: 1. Transformation of Military Education in Ukraine, 2. Total Learning Architecture (TLA) Military Ecosystem in Ukraine, 3. Computer Adaptive Language Testing according to NATO STANAG 6001 (CALT). During the staying in Rome, the UKR delegation met with the leadership of the NATO Defense College: https://www.ndc.nato.int/news/news.php?icode=1801&fbclid=IwAR0UZzFmYGSCwY1uE6omU_UHCP28-SKLzCMcpRHuTlUMO3Kx3TI6KbmCanA